هرد

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Compare هَدَرَ (hadara) also meaning “to boil”.

Verb

هَرَدَ (harada) I (non-past يَهْرِدُ (yahridu), verbal noun هَرْد (hard)) (obsolete)

  1. to tear, to lacerate, to rip
  2. to boil, to stew
  3. to be able to provide or bring about
Conjugation
Derived terms

Verb

هَرَّدَ (harrada) II (non-past يُهَرِّدُ (yuharridu), verbal noun تَهْرِيد (tahrīd)) (obsolete)

  1. to boil much up to the point of disintegration
Conjugation

Noun

هَرْد (hardm (obsolete)

  1. verbal noun of هَرَدَ (harada) (form I)
Declension

Noun

هِرْد (hirdm (obsolete)

  1. she-ostrich
    Coordinate term: ظَلِيم (ẓalīm)
  2. a man who is vile or of meanest sort
Declension

Etymology 2

Since the expansion of Arabic into South Arabia and the Iraq, ultimately from Sanskrit हरिद्रा (haridrā), with vocalism change in Arabic as in قُطُب (quṭub), وُرُس (wurus) etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

هُرْد or هُرُد (hurd or hurudm

  1. (Yemen, obsolete in Iraq) turmeric
    Synonym: كُرْكُم (kurkum)
    • c. 910, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamaḏānī, Kitāb al-Buldān:
      و من عمل المدينة: مرّان، و قبا، و الدثينة- و يقال الدفينة- و فلجة، و ضريّة، و طخفة، و إمرة، و أضاح، و معدن الحسن، و بئر غرس بقبا، و بئر بضاعة بالمدينة، و كانوا يستشفون بمائها.
      [عبلاء البياض: موضعان من أعمال المدينة و عبلاء الهرد. و الهرد نبت به يصبغ أصفر.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Abū Ḥanīfa ad-Dīnawarī to this entry?)
Declension
Derived terms
  • هَرَدَ (harada, to colour yellow)
  • هَرَّدَ (harrada, to colour yellow)
  • هُرْدِيّ (hurdiyy, coloured yellow by turmeric)

Verb

هَرَدَ (harada) I (non-past يَهْرِدُ (yahridu), verbal noun هَرْد (hard))

  1. to colour yellow
Conjugation

Verb

هَرَّدَ (harrada) II (non-past يُهَرِّدُ (yuharridu), verbal noun تَهْرِيد (tahrīd))

  1. to colour yellow
  2. to put on a yellow garment
Conjugation

Noun

هَرْد (hardm

  1. verbal noun of هَرَدَ (harada) (form I)
Declension

References

  • مروان بن جناح (a. 1050) Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, editors, كتاب التلخيص [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs] (in Arabic), Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 282 (fol. 27r,16), pages 469–470
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “هرد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 384a
  • Landberg, Carlo, editor (1942), Glossaire daṯînois (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 2865
  • Landberg, Carlo, editor (1909), Études sur les dialectes de l'Arabie méridionale. Deuxième volume. Daṯînah. Deuxième partie (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 1317
  • Schönig, Hanne (2002) Schminken, Düfte und Räucherwerk der Jemenitinnen: Lexikon der Substanzen, Utensilien und Techniken (Beiruter Texte und Studien; 91)‎, Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, →ISBN, page 128 seqq.

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate to Persian خرد (xord).

Adjective

هرد (hərd, hi̥rd)

  1. small, minute